Chapter 140

“Jason, what’s up with you?” Evadne looked puzzled and surprised.

She always thought highly of Jason, but there he was looking all beat up and lost, eyes bloodshot, lips pale as a sheet, like a puppy left homeless in a downpour.

“Jason, are you here because of Elspeth?”

Ca**ius came up to Evadne, his steps steady, his eyes soft, as he wiped his handsome hands with a pristine white silk cloth.

Evadne glanced at him and saw specks of blood on the cloth.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry!” Jason kept apologizing, bowing deeply to them.

Just as Evadne was puzzled, Arnold gave her a buzz.

“Arnold?”

“Sis, Elspeth just left my place.”

Arnold’s voice was heavy with resignation, seemingly self–blaming as he said, “My team and I have been gathering evidence on Elspeth’s abuse of power and bribery, but she’s way ahead of us, shifting all blame to Earl. Frederic got her a really slick lawyer, Cedric Dempsey. That guy is ruthless; he knows exactly how to exploit legal loopholes. My evidence fell short, so I had to let Elspeth go.”

“It’s alright, Arnold, you’ve done your best. And we hit our target, as long as we’ve got the Westguard project under our belt. Everything else, we can take it slow.”

Evadne was calm, but those around her were all fuming as they were itching to give Elspeth a good thrashing.

Elspeth was no saint, but Evadne knew that they could take their time dealing with that woman.

J

At that point, Frederic was still head over heels for Elspeth, he would surely go all out to help her. Escalating the conflict between two big conglomerates for a single project, wasting resources, just wasn’t worth it at that time.

“Uh, Evadne, Jason already rang me up, he seemed quite upset. Comfort him a bit, this has nothing to do with him. He cares too much about your feelings, afraid that you’re upset, so he’s under a lot of stress,” Arnold sighed.

“I got it.”

got the full picture of what had happened, her

I’m ready to take all the blame,” Jason’s eyes were red as he was ashamed and couldn’t

his brother took on Elspeth’s case, he was so mad that he stormed into Cedric’s law firm and had a big blowout with him in

Emeric’s help, hiring our dad as a legal advisor for the conglomerate, protecting us, how could our parents have had a peaceful retirement? How could your law firm have thrived like this? Now Ms. Evadne is going after Elspeth, how can

twenty years, but this time,

Ashbournes have been good to us, but that doesn’t mean our whole family has to kowtow to them! And besides, our dad has won so many cases for Chairman Emeric over the years, any debt of gratitude has been paid off! I’m a professional lawyer, to me, everyone is a client. If it’s a case I can handle, and the terms are right, I’ll take it, whether it’s the Abernathy group or the Ashbourne group, it simply doesn’t matter to me! You, on the

stung Jason

Evadne his whole heart, but his family was

really couldn’t face Ms.

what are

trembling shoulders, gently shaking him, “Don’t blame yourself, and don’t pick a fight with your family over this. Elspeth is an insignificant

Jason’s voice choked, filled with

totally understand this,

Cedric a good enough deal, then Mr. Cedric has the right to stick to

his head, nodding

gently stroking her palm and asking, “Evadne,

first, I

intelligence, narrowing slightly, “George said that only Acacia’s mother Una knows where the child is, so let’s have

asked, “And what about Acacia?

drive her mad before I

and she also inquired, “Isn’t she about to get engaged to Thaddeus? How can

his marbles,” Ca**ius was deeply

a bat for a while now. No matter, I’ve found myself again, and I want

“Here, check out this guy, do you recognize him? I was nearly stabbed by George the other day, but thanks to this gentleman, I only got a

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in surprise. “Really? Then you should thank

kept his identity a mystery. The kicker is, he

she recalled the man’s

woman, she had a man’s desire for control and didn’t like anything or anyone slipping

closer to her, examining the photo

he turned to look at Evadne

really don’t

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